Aldreth
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- East Cambridgeshire
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
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Aldreth is a hamlet in Cambridgeshire with about 260 residents (2001 census). It is located near the larger village of Haddenham (where the population is listed) and falls under the same Parish council. Aldreth is surrounded by fenland on all sides and is close to the River Great Ouse.
== History == === Toponymy === The name "Aldreth" occurs as Alreheða in the 1170 Pipe rolls, and means "landing-place by the alders", from a combination of the Old English words for "alder" and "hythe". The name also occurs a number of times in the text of the 12th-century Liber Eliensis, as Alreheðe, with one variant as Alhereðe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aldreth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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